Fernando Verdasco and Roberto Marcora will square off in the 2^nd round of the St. Tropez Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 12:00 pm on CENTRAL TAG HEUER. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.

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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Fernando Verdasco who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Fernando Verdasco is the pick to win this match.
Fernando Verdasco -> 1.25
Roberto Marcora -> 3.78

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Prediction and head to head Fernando Verdasco vs. Roberto Marcora

There is no head to head record between Fernando Verdasco and Roberto Marcora since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.

Fernando Verdasco

Ranked no. 118, the Spaniard reached the 2^nd round after defeating Dan Added 6-1 6-1.

In the 1^st round, Fernando had a good straight sets win against Added (6-1 6-1). During the match, Verdasco scored 53 points vs Added’s 29. Fernando was extremely aggressive to blast 21 winners.

Talking about the service games, Verdasco blasted 2 aces and he was extremely consistent in conceding no double faults. Fernando Verdasco was quite effective on serve to win 84% (21/25) of his 1st serve and 64% (7/11) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Spaniard broke Added 5 times after converting 56% of his break points (5/9).

Verdasco has good win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 51% of his matches (245-232). 17-11 on hard in 2022. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this competition, Verdasco has an aggregate 91-85 match record in the last years on hard.

Fernando’s best result of the year was getting to the final in the Monterrey Challenger.

The Spaniard has a compiled 33-29 win-loss record in 2022, 17-11 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the St. Tropez Challenger

Verdasco has never competed in this tournament before.

Roberto Marcora

Ranked no. 636, the Italian reached the 2^nd round after defeating Clement Tabur 6-3 6-4.

In the 1^st round, Marcora had a good straight sets win against Tabur (6-3 6-4). During the match Marcora scored 65 points vs Tabur’s 50. Marcora was pretty aggressive to blast 27 winners.

Talking about serving, Marcora fired 3 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Overall, Roberto Marcora was exceptionally efficient on serve to win 82% (27/33) of his 1st serve and 61% (14/23) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Roberto broke Tabur 3 times after converting 30% of his break points (3/10).

Marcora has a composed 3-6 win-loss record in 2022, 3-4 on hard (See FULL STATS).

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Verdasco	Marcora
Match played	1	1
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	14	19
Pts	53-29	65-50
Total Points	82	115
Winners	21	27
%Winners	40%	42%

Both Verdasco and Marcora played 1 match. Both players have not lost a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Verdasco and Marcora have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Verdasco played 5 games less than Marcora. Verdasco scored 21 winners (40% of the total points). On the other side, Marcora fired 27 winners (42%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Verdasco	Marcora
Aces	2	3
Avg per match	2	3
1st in	25/36	33/56
%1st in	69%	59%
1st pts	21/25	27/33
%1st pts	84%	82%
2nd pts	7/11	14/23
%2nd pts	64%	61%

Verdasco struck 2 aces . Marcora made 3 aces . Verdasco won 84% points behind his first serve. He pretty solid on his second serve to win 64% of the points. On the other side, Marcora won 82% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 61% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Verdasco	Marcora
Won	5	3
Converted	5/9	3/10
% Converted	56%	30%
Conceded	0	2
Saved	0	1
% Saved	0%	50%
Times Broken	0	1

Fernando broke his opponent 5 times with a 56% conversion rate. Fernando very solid his serve as he has never lost a single service game after saving 0 break points. Marcora broke his opponent 3 times with a 30% conversion rate. Roberto conceded his serve once and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded.

Verdasco
	R1 Added	Total
Score	6-1 6-1
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	14	14
pts	53-29	53-29
Total points	82	82
Winners	21	21
%Winners	40%	40%
SERVE
Aces	2	2
Double Faults	0	0
1st in	25/36	25/36
% 1st in	69%	69%
1st pts	21/25	21/25
% 1st pts	84%	84%
2nd pts	7/11	7/11
% 2nd pts	64%	64%
Breaks
Won	5	5
Converted	5/9	5/9
Converted %	56%	56%
Conceded	0	0
Saved	0/0	0
Saved %	–	0%
Times Broken	0	0

Marcora
	R1 Tabur	Total
Score	6-3 6-4
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	19	19
pts	65-50	65-50
Total points	115	115
Winners	27	27
%Winners	42%	42%
SERVE
Aces	3	3
Double Faults	1	1
1st in	33/56	33/56
% 1st in	59%	59%
1st pts	27/33	27/33
% 1st pts	82%	82%
2nd pts	14/23	14/23
% 2nd pts	61%	61%
Breaks
Won	3	3
Converted	3/10	3/10
Converted %	30%	30%
Conceded	2	2
Saved	1/2	1
Saved %	50%	50%
Times Broken	1	1

Tennis Scores in St. Tropez Challenger

• Hugo GrenierGrenier – Jesper De JongDe Jong (5-7 6-2 6-4) – See score progression
• Roberto MarcoraMarcora – Clement TaburTabur (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
• Harold MayotMayot – Federico GaioGaio (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
• Fernando VerdascoVerdasco – Dan AddedAdded (6-1 6-1) – See score progression
• Valentin RoyerRoyer – Geoffrey BlancaneauxBlancaneaux (7-6⁹ 6-3) – See score progression
• Mattia BellucciBellucci – Louis WesselsWessels (6-4 7-6⁶) – See score progression
• Nicholas David IonelDavid Ionel – Jack SockSock (6-4 5-4 ret.) – See score progression
• Salvatore CarusoCaruso – Frederico Ferreira SilvaFerreira Silva (6-2 6-7⁵ 7-6³) – See score progression
• Stefano TravagliaTravaglia – Adrian AndreevAndreev (6-4 6-7⁶ 6-4) – See score progression
• Matteo ArnaldiArnaldi – Alexander ShevchenkoShevchenko (6-1 6-2) – See score progression
• Jurij RodionovRodionov – Mikhail KukushkinKukushkin (6-3 7-5) – See score progression
• Gregoire BarrereBarrere – Luca Van AsscheVan Assche (6-1 7-6⁸) – See score progression
• Ugo HumbertHumbert – Laurent LokoliLokoli (6-1 6-3) – See score progression
• Oleksii KrutykhKrutykh – Miljan ZekicZekic (6-3 6-0) – See score progression
• Lukas RosolRosol – Alexander RitschardRitschard (6-4 7-6⁶) – See score progression
• Nick HardtHardt – Jurgen BriandBriand (3-6 7-5 6-3) – See score progression
• Roberto MarcoraMarcora – Clement TaburTabur (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
• Fernando VerdascoVerdasco – Dan AddedAdded (6-1 6-1) – See score progression
• Nicholas David IonelDavid Ionel – Jack SockSock (6-4 5-4 ret.) – See score progression
• Salvatore CarusoCaruso – Frederico Ferreira SilvaFerreira Silva (6-2 6-7(5) 7-6(3)) – See score progression
• Mattia BellucciBellucci – Louis WesselsWessels (6-4 7-6(6)) – See score progression
• Hugo GrenierGrenier – Jesper De JongDe Jong (5-7 6-2 6-4) – See score progression

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Lukas RosolRosol – Gregoire BarrereBarrere (2-1) – H2H and prediction
• Roberto MarcoraMarcora – Fernando VerdascoVerdasco (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Ugo HumbertHumbert – Stefano TravagliaTravaglia (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Nick HardtHardt – Valentin RoyerRoyer (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Jurij RodionovRodionov – Oleksii KrutykhKrutykh (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Nicholas David IonelDavid Ionel – Salvatore CarusoCaruso (0-0) – H2H and prediction